Yes your assumptions are correct. I have built the suggester and it works fine without the cfq.
These queries work: /autocomplete?suggest.q=mexican&wt=json /select?indent=on&q=+isoDateTime:[2016-05-16T0:0:0.0Z%20TO%20*]&wt=json This one does not: /autocomplete?suggest.q=mexican&suggest.cfq=[2016-05-16T0:0:0.0Z%20TO%20*]&wt=json Is it maybe because my primary suggestion field type doesn't match the contextField type? Or do I maybe need a secondary definition like the suggestAnalyzerFieldType to cover the field type of the contextField (if so what's the syntax to do that)? *Relevant configs* *solrconfig.xml:* <searchComponent class="solr.SuggestComponent" name="suggest"> <lst name="suggester"> <str name="name">mysuggester</str> <str name="lookupImpl">AnalyzingInfixLookupFactory</str> <str name="suggestAnalyzerFieldType">textSuggest</str> <bool name="highlight">false</bool> <str name="contextField">isoDateTime</str> <str name="dictionaryImpl">DocumentDictionaryFactory</str> <str name="field">suggestedcompletions</str> <str name="buildOnStartup">false</str> <str name="buildOnCommit">false</str> </lst> </searchComponent> <requestHandler name="/autocomplete" class="solr.SearchHandler" startup="lazy"> <lst name="defaults"> <str name="suggest">true</str> <str name="suggest.dictionary">mysuggester</str> <str name="suggest.count">10</str> </lst> <arr name="components"> <str>suggest</str> </arr> </requestHandler> *schema.xml* <fieldType name="textSuggest" class="solr.TextField" positionIncrementGap="100"> <analyzer> <tokenizer class="solr.StandardTokenizerFactory"/> <filter class="solr.StandardFilterFactory"/> <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/> </analyzer> </fieldType> <field name="title" type="text_general" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="false" /> <field name="isoDateTime" type="tdate" indexed="true" stored="true"/> <field name="suggestedcompletions" type="textSuggest" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true" /> <copyField source="title" dest="suggestedcompletions"/> -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/does-suggester-s-contextField-support-TrieDate-data-type-tp4335208p4335334.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.